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48 Cards in this Set
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World War I
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Between powers of Russia
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Victory with staggering losses
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Social Carninism
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Whites= better
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attrition
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wearing down of someone
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Pan Slavism
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love of family/across family
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Balkans
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area near crecia/serbia
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Triple entente
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alliance between france, britain, russia
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Alsace-Lorraine
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stolen from France for Germany--> fear
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Hapsburg
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family in G
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Russo-Japanese war (1905)
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Russia defeated by Japanese
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Wilheml II
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2nd G leader, insecure, Bitter, bully, jealous
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand
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heir to A-H Throne
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Austro Hungarian empire
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weak. allied with G
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The Black Hand
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sebian secret society
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"the blank check"
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offered help by G to A-H with serbia.
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Mobilization
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getting army together
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the schlieffen plan
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take out France, beat R
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Belgium
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neutral, invaded by G
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Total War
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economy and hiding #s to keep up morale
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propaganda
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appeal to emotions of a people by gov
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Central Powers
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alliance-G, A-H, I, Bulgaria
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The First Battle of the Marne
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First battle with F in 2 front war
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trench warfare
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stay out of line of fire
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"mo Man's Land"
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trenches on either side
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"going over-the-top"
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running out of trnch, run at other trench
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Gallipoli
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Britain failed to get to Turkey
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Contraband of war
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helpful to war effort
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blockage
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G blocked off to the sea. no food from A
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unrestricted submarine warfare
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kill all boats/passengers or not.
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the lusitania
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B boat sunk by G. passenger
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armistice
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putting down of arms
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treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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gave away chunks of R
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Czar Nicholas II
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Wilhelm's russian cousin
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Bolshevik
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means majority, come to dominate Petrograd Soviet
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October Revolution
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storming of Winter Palace
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"dictatorship of the proletariat"
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bolsheviks justified rule
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Lenin
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led Bolsheviks
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Petrograd Soviet
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a counil, not a real gov.
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Alexander Kerensky
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later ruler of Prov. Gov
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Provisional government
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after Tzaravdicates, before have a chance to form dom.
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Russia's March Revolution
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women for break, soldiers join
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"peace without victory"
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no one wins...but still leads to peace
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14 points
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wilson's treaty
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president wilson
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pres. who negotiated treaty
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Armenian genocide
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turkey killed armenians for land.
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shell shock
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medical disease- twitching and inhibilitation
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the battle of the somme
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8 days...b thought they dominated G..G killed them all
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Bismark
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town in germany
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